Sharp's Travels

We are on the move today, destination Anchorage—233 miles. We were disappointed we didn’t see Mt. McKinley yesterday.

We left at 9:30am and had our first break at mile 50. Today will be our last big day of our caravan. We had views of the mountains as we traveled towards Anchorage. We got a glimpse of Mt. McKinley peaking through the clouds. That’s better than nothing. We’ll take it. I got a few pictures while we were driving along. On down the road we heard Spike come over the radio and say Mt. McKinley was in full view. He told us to pull into the wayside coming up if we wanted to take pictures. Gay snapped lots of pictures and got some really nice ones. We are happy now---we got to see Mt. McKinley.

For lunch we pulled into Big Sheep Lodge at mile 140. We had a quick soup & sandwich and were back on the road.

At mile 193 we took a 60 min. break at the Iditarod Trail Headquarters. Gay rode in the dog sled and I got to hold the 6wk old puppies.

We went into the museum and checked out the displays, photos and trophies of Iditarod winners. We watched a movie of dog sled racing and then it was back to our rigs and off to Golden Nugget Camper Park in Anchorage.

Anchorage is the hub of the entire state, population 282,000. We will be here for 4 days.

We were invited to BBQ/Pot Luck here at the campground as soon as we set up.

We will have an early turn-in; it will be a busy day tomorrow.

For pictures of the day see album: Denali to Anchorage 7-19-08